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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
ventilation, employ water recycling, and produce minimal waste. “Our aim is to model ‘the factory of the future’ and demonstrate how a traditional industry can transform, be sustainable, and remain profitable.” Marjorie Yang (MBA 1976),... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
has converted part of her luxury accessory company's factory and is leading other New York City leather goods and apparel factories to produce 30-50,000 masks per week for Weill Cornell and other hospitals... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
relatively high costs for labor and energy as well as the investment and time required to build factories in a country that has much more stringent environmental standards. “COVID-19 has changed only a few of the variables across... View Details
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
A Clean Start
it a reality, and the plants and factories to scale it. OCO’s bread and butter is a processing device called an electrolyzer, which combines electricity and CO2 and splits water to make formic acid. That formic acid can then be sold to... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of survival, and the rapid response of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
relocations. The hospital also introduces a patient safety alert system as a direct result of seeing the andon cord in action during a Toyota factory visit in Japan. As a result of such changes, the hospital experiences a 44 percent gain... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Cameron’s low profile makes him the perfect candidate for an FBI investigation that he wants no part of. Before he knows it—and with his family’s future at stake—he discovers DC’s darkest secrets as he races to expose a deadly conspiracy. The Next View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
appear on the goods it delivers. But nearly every major retailer, from Liz Claiborne to Walmart, depends on Li & Fung to stock its shelves. The firm is the quintessential middleman between manufacturers, now in more than 40 economies, and global consumers. It owns no... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Feedback
Five Degrees of Doriot Re: Lasting lessons My fondest memory of the Business School is having lunch with the professor and discussing my thesis on “making the automatic factory a reality” that I did with classmate John Diebold. Doriot... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
were being purchased, with each factory having its own suppliers and price points. While this revelation was itself startling, the manager maximized its impact by inviting the company's division presidents into a boardroom where samples... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
semiconductor manufacturers’ capabilities. It’s no coincidence that the entire flat-panel display industry emerged from semiconductor industry capabilities. The people who built the factories to make semiconductors used that knowledge to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
findings, which substantiated my insight about Soviet decision-making, were published in Behind the Factory Walls: Decision Making in Soviet and U.S. Enterprises (Harvard Business Press, 1990) and simultaneously in Russia by our Soviet... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
global marketplace. At ALFA’s Nemak manufacturing plant, we tour the R&D lab and walk the factory floor to get a better sense of the technical and operational expertise behind the world’s leading manufacturer of aluminum auto engine heads... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
the form of direct investment. That meant that instead of borrowing from Western banks to finance their industrial development, as many other emerging markets did, they got foreigners to build factories in Chinese enterprise zones —... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
Tushman and senior lecturer Mike Roberts, opens with Jamie Houghton (MBA 1962), the great-great-grandson of the company’s founder, taking over the corner office of his family’s firm. After a grooming process begun at a Corning lightbulb View Details
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- 13 Nov 2020
- News
A Passion for Education
and then went to work in a factory and his mother, a homemaker, did not attend college because her father didn’t think education benefited women. Thinking Bigger In his parents, Ryan saw a deep determination to foster opportunities that... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- News
Where Are They Now?
Mahesh checks in from the factory floor. Courtesy Krishna Mahesh Related Links Alum startup wins HBS contest New Venture Contest: Call for entries Upcoming webinars for entrepreneurs HBS New Ventures group on LinkedIn “I am still amazed... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
David Perez (MBA 1996) readily admits that launching Avance Investment Management in May 2020, at the height of the pandemic, was “the worst timing ever.” But the Cuban native, who studied engineering in East Germany and saved his earnings from working nights in a... View Details
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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
his musket factory. And I also look at Oliver Ames who was making shovels just down the road from the Business School in Easton, Massachusetts, mechanizing that process. Now we start to get things like the telegraph and the railroad and you start to see these huge... View Details